Event recordings
Watch and listen to recordings of our past presentations.
22 July 2022
Julie Leroux - PS PhD Candidate, Pogson Group
As sessile organisms, plants have evolved a multitude of mechanisms to acclimate to their environment enabling the plant to optimise development and reproduction, and fight off or...
20 July 2022
Imelda Forteza - PhD Candidate - Mathesius Group
Host-microbe associations have been, and continue to be, an area of great interest.
7 July 2022
Dr Bart Eijkelkamp, Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Flinders University
Nutritional deficiencies are a leading cause of human susceptibility to infectious diseases and antibiotic treatment failure. Specifically, our intake of dietary lipids has...
22 June 2022
Dr Rachel North, Stockholm University
Bacterial infections remain a global public health challenge and there is a critical need for the identification and molecular understanding of new targets for antimicrobial...
10 June 2022
Prof Yong-Ling Ruan - Honorary Group Leader, Division of Plant Sciences, The Australian National University
Source-to-sink allocation of, and sink-to-sink competition for, photoassimilates, mainly in the form of sucrose, play a key role in determining energy and resource distribution in...
9 June 2022
Darren Creek, Monash University
Current treatments for malaria are threatened by drug resistance, and new antimalarials are urgently required to ensure the continued ability to treat malaria infections into the...
26 May 2022
Jeff Powell, Western Sydney University
The vast majority of plants are mycorrhizal, with two of the most dominant types (arbuscular [AM] and ectomycorrhizal [EcM]) existing at opposite ends of multiple spectra.
26 May 2022
Emily Furlong, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, NSW
Bacterial flagella self-assemble a strong, multi-component drive shaft that couples rotation in the inner membrane to the microns-long flagellar filament that powers bacterial...
25 May 2022
A/Prof Mathew G. Lewsey - Co-Deputy Director, ARC Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
Seeds provide 70% of global food resources, being the most valuable output from plant production. They also play a critical role in agriculture because the lifecycle of most crops...
19 May 2022
Peter Unmack
Carp gudgeons in eastern Australia have evolved a complex and quirky system of hemiclonal unisexual reproduction.